Latinx Studies Graduate Students

Mexico requests 'full investigation' after US tear-gas incident I'll be eager to hear the Trump administration's response, because at this point, the defense for the what transpired at the border needs work.

Hey friends, grad students, junior scholars ( at UT and across Texas)!

If you would like to support and endorse this letter to the Texas State Board of Education requesting that the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards regarding the history of slavery, the Civil War, and the Civil Rights era be rewritten to reflect current historical knowledge on these topics click the link to find the letter to sign. :)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pCYXZAvU6iAsAOM0L9fQ-xiaAD12j7KZK1XcBXEboBc/edit

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Teach the Truth -Letter to the Texas State Board of Education Dear Graduate Students, Two weeks ago, Drs. Daina Ramey Berry, Anthony Brown, Keffrelyn Brown, and Shirley Thompson (The University of Texas at Austin), wrote a letter to the Texas State Board of Education requesting that the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards regarding the hi...

The Little-Known Underground Railroad That Ran South to Mexico The Underground Railroad ran south as well as north. For slaves in Texas, refuge in Canada must have seemed impossibly far away. Fortunately, slavery was also